BryanH:
Wheel Nut:
Who was the other strange sounding name from Armadale?Something of Armadale
Would that have been Marshalls of Armadale?
I remember seeing a Purple / Burgundy Volvo F10 / 12 wagon and drag doing the rounds at Truckfest Peterborough a few years ago.
It could have been Marshalls, it seemed a bit strange at the time. Did they do Fruit? I use to see this company in Glasgow market if I did a weekend market job for Parkland.
hiya,
used to see motors coming south on a74 and a6 pale blue i think never met one parked so never got to know them they where sided rigids something like TECUMSEH on the headboard can’t remember ever seeing an artic there was plenty of them about though thanks harry long retired.
alexsaville:
Yesterday I passed D J Dunabies yard in Maybole Ayrshire and was surprised to see it completely empty! They did a bit of airfreight and also had a depot at Newbury in the south. I suspect they are gone!!!
Which explains why I haven’t seen any in Newbury lately! They didn’t seem to have a depot in town, but operated from a customer’s premises on the Bone Lane industrial estate, a refrigeration outfit whose name escapes me for the moment.
Would that have beeen Fridgidare or something like that?
Alex
What a great post !!! 
Reading through all these old and current company names
brings back some great memories.
I can also back up georgeking, seen one of McGawns scanies on the A1 a few days ago.
Chris Webb:
alexsaville:
Chris
AlexThere was another haulier I recall from Ayrshire, called Moores Motors who ran Scammell Highwaymen,did a lot of work in and out of Scottish Stampings at Ayr.I used to see 'em regular loading out of SPT (BSC) Sheffield in the 60s.
To go on about old Scottish hauliers would need another thread.
ALEX
Moores motors, When I was on Smith of Maddiston ( Southampton ) I seem to remember they had some bonnetted MACK trucks ?
The story goes, they would load ingots onto a MACK and an 8 wheeler at the works, transship the 8 wheelers load on to the MACK and send the 8 wheeler back into the plant. How true, or an urban trucker myth, I don’t know. But makes a good story eh !
alexsaville:
Would that have beeen Fridgidare or something like that?
Alex
Was it Lec? they had a factory in Bognor Regis and Burnley before opening in France
Fergie47:
Chris Webb:
alexsaville:
Chris
AlexThere was another haulier I recall from Ayrshire, called Moores Motors who ran Scammell Highwaymen,did a lot of work in and out of Scottish Stampings at Ayr.I used to see 'em regular loading out of SPT (BSC) Sheffield in the 60s.
To go on about old Scottish hauliers would need another thread.ALEX
Moores motors, When I was on Smith of Maddiston ( Southampton ) I seem to remember they had some bonnetted MACK trucks ?
The story goes, they would load ingots onto a MACK and an 8 wheeler at the works, transship the 8 wheelers load on to the MACK and send the 8 wheeler back into the plant. How true, or an urban trucker myth, I don’t know. But makes a good story eh !
I only recall the Scammells Fergie.Your story could be true as I heard the same about Sam Anderson loading steel plate on a trailer,sheeting it up and topping it up with a loaded 8-legger for the trunk.
As far as I know this has never been confirmed or denied come to that.
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Anyone remember these Glasgow firms?
Glasgow Hiring Company and subsiduary, Duntocher Haulage. J & R Wright (Rutherglen), John McNeils (used to do local work, usually Kelloggs, as they were owned by Arbuckle Smith, a well known warehousing company) then expanded and ran to the Middle East. A & J McLellan (who I worked for ), John Barries, Issac Barrie, Ritchies. Thos Craig at Barrhead, used to do all Manchester Liners work in Scotland, ran trunks to Ryton for Rootes from Linwood.
Alex[/quote]
Hi Alex,
the old man ( Andy Gray ex - BRS CALEDONIAN Glasgow) worked for Glasgow Hiring Company and John Barries ( we never ran out of soap powder ) .Was John Mc Neils depot just before the Clyde tunnel entrance, Govan side. Later became Comtrans depot I think. J&R Wright had a depot in Maryhill near Dawsholm, excellent fleet in blue with distinctive signwriting, did alot of containers as I recall. Is that Ritches the trainers off Petershill Road. Used to do a lot of haulage in the 70s. Do you also remember C&L Transport, who ran a fleet of Daf 2300 out of Maryhill ?
…and Ewan Booth Peterhead with Fridges
Thomas MacMillan …now andersons
John Houston…Johnstone
Bill Wright…Bowling
JS MacDonald…Paisley
Fullarton…Govan then Renfrew
Charles Lawther …Princes Dock
Russell Astrans…Princes Dock
Howright…Princes Dock
Kennedy tippers
Hemphill tippers Govan
S & H McCall
Ian Henderson…Renfrew
Milne…Barrhead
Stewart Cameron…Drymen
Gray …Cardross
Simpsons …Greenock
Brookes…Johnstone
Dunrobin…Wishaw (wiilie weir)
this is a bit of a long shot but did anyone work with Frank Fleming?, worked with origibnal strathclyde transport and latterly Cadzow Haulage
Chris Webb:
Just remembered Stewart Cameron and Duncan Adams - one of them had a depot in Widnes - and Billy Walker from Turriff.Nurse is coming,time for bed.
Widnes depot belonged to Stewart Cameron
Chris Webb:
Wheel Nut:
Who was the other strange sounding name from Armadale?Something of Armadale
I can’t think of the Armadale haulier Malc and I can’t remember the one from Maybole,Ayrshire. I have just thought of Morris Young of Hillyland,Perth,Tullis Russell(something to do with paper manufacturing I think),Tayforth Group,Caledonian Road Services,Blue Band Motors Lockerbie,T & M Catto Aberdeen(ran Marathons
and they were either from St.Monance,Pitenweem or Crail.
Any ideas Alex?
I heard Highland Haulage are still going but I didn’t know they went in with Connals, and nice to see some of the others I listed haven’t pulled t’pin yet.The Popeye I recall ran Scania 111s and I used to see them on the A66 when I was on Carlisle/Lockerbie/Penrith trunk in the early 80s.
I understand “Lofty Peak” flour of Chancelot Mill,Leith fame are no longer.They ran to Gateshead on nights with ERFs and also AEC twin-steer Mammoth Minors.Are Curries of Dumfries still going?
Yes they are now a massive company
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Bing Transport of Banknock was a memorable name, pity I had forgotten it 
I remember Motherwell Bridge Engineering as we had to fuel up somewhere around that yard when we first got keyfuels keys. The company you mentioned at Newarthill. JK Allan, was that the one at the junction where Cardiff Transport also had a base, those and across the road was the light blue parcel trucks iirc. We loaded from either William Forrest in Newarthill which was probably classed as Cleland. or we loaded ■■■■ seed oil from King George V dock at LD Industries.
Bing Transport, Green Magnums? Used to see em about in Italy a fair bit, I know they used to go like the clappers, sure they were closed down for being naughty boys 
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Griffiths ran tippers from Armadale, He also bought some old shale bings & when the M8 was being built through Glasgow he made a fortune, it was discovered that the shale was ideal bottoming for the tarmac.
They even had trains running into the bings.
One of the reasons that tipper loads have to be sheeted is that Griffiths Tippers broke more windscreens with flying shale than the rest of us did with flying stones etc.
When the contract finished he took the money & retired.
Dave.
Hi chaps.
For some strange reason, I never got North of the Border very often so my memories are limited. 
I did meet a Scot in the Wheelhouse in Dover many years ago.
His surname was Hunter, but I can’t remember his first name. He did tell me that he had (some) trucks on European work and a relative (his brother?) ran some tippers.
Alex mentioned Throsk. I don’t recall the firm he mentioned, but I did an emergency job to Throsk when I was on British Gas. That was a full trailer of propane cylinders, which was needed because the British Gas depot at Throsk had nearly run out. I did that job late on Xmas eve 1998 and just about made it home in time for Xmas day.
From my European days, I also remember (Andrew?) Wishart’s, because I used to see them frequently in Garonor Customs in Paris.
Happy days.
I reckon willie_mac might be able to help with this topic. 
